Dr. Yusdiel Torres Cambas

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsEcology and Biodiversity of Animals and Ecosystems, Organismic Interactions,Ecology and Biodiversity of Plants and Ecosystems
Keywordsclimate and land use change, freshwater biodiversity, modelling, ecosystem services, spatial conservation planning
Honours and awards

2020: Georg Forster Research Fellowship for postdoctoral researchers

Current contact address

CountryCuba
CitySantiago de Cuba
InstitutionUniversidad de Oriente
InstituteFacultad de Ciencias Naturales y Exactas

Host during sponsorship

Dr. Sami DomischAbteilung 2: Ökologie der Lebensgemeinschaften und Ökosysteme, Leibniz-Institut für Gewässerökologie und Binnenfischerei (IGB), Berlin
Prof. Dr. Boris Schröder-EsselbachAbteilung Landschaftsökologie und Umweltsystemanalyse, Technische Universität Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig, Braunschweig
Dr. Stefano BalbiBasque Centre for Climate Change (bc3), Leioa
Start of initial sponsorship01/02/2021

Programme(s)

2020Georg Forster Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2026García Márquez, J. R.; Grigoropoulou, A.; Tomiczek, T.; Schürz, M.; Bremerich, V.; Torres-Cambas, Y.; Buurman, M.; Bego, K.; Amatulli, G.; Domisch, S: Environment90m – globally standardized environmental variables for freshwater science at high spatial resolution. In: Earth System Science Data, 18, 2026, 1541–1559
2026Waheed, A., Griffith, P., Isani, M., Torres-Cambas, Y., Jha, H., Siyal, A., & Jähnig, S. C.: How the colonial-era water management paradigm continues to shape the Indus Delta crisis. In: International Journal of River Basin Management, 2026, 1-24
2026Olga N. Petko, Kristian Miok, Vanessa Bremerich, Mihaela C. Ion, Yusdiel Torres-Cambas, Merret Buurman, World of Crayfish® Contributors, Sami Domisch & Lucian Pârvulescu: Network-aware environmental trait database for global freshwater crayfish. In: Scientific Data, 2026,
2026Yusdiel Torres-Cambas et al.: The Danube Fish Database: documenting species distributions across a major European river basin. In: Scientific Data, 13, 2026,
2025Graciela Medina-Madariaga, Hong Hanh Nguyen, Jens Kiesel, Kristin Peters, Christian K. Feld, Sonja C. Jähnig, Yusdiel Torres-Cambas: Transferability of stream benthic macroinvertebrate distribution models to drought-related conditions. In: Ecological Informatics, 91, 2025, 103395
2023 Yusdiel Torres-Cambas, Yoandri S. Megna, Juan Carlos Salazar-Salina, Yander L. Diez, Alejandro Catalá, Adrian D. Trapero-Quintana, Boris Schröder & Sami Domisch A database of freshwater macroinvertebrate occurrence records across Cuba. In: Scientific Data, 10, 2023,
2023Marlene Schürz, Afroditi Grigoropoulou, Jaime García Márquez, Yusdiel Torres-Cambas, Thomas Tomiczek, Mathieu Floury, Vanessa Bremerich, Christoph Schürz, Giuseppe Amatulli, Hans-Peter Grossart, Sami Domisch: hydrographr: An R package for scalable hydrographic dataprocessing. In: Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2023, 1-11
2022Afroditi Grigoropoulou, Suhaila Ab Hamid, Raúl Acosta, ..., Yusdiel Torres-Cambas, ..., Sami Domisch: The Global EPTO Database: worldwide occurrences of aquatic insects. In: Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2022,
2021Juan Carlos Salazar-Salina and Yusdiel Torres-Cambas: A new record of the Cuban endemic mayfly Poecilophlebia pacoi (Kluge, 1994) (Ephe­meroptera, Leptophlebiidae) from Gran Piedra massif, eastern Cuba. In: Check List, 17, 2021, 1103-1106
2004Domisch, S., Bremerich, V., Buurman, M., Kaminke, B., Tomiczek, T., Torres-Cambas, Y., … De Meester, L.: GeoFRESH – an online platform for freshwater geospatial data processing. In: International Journal of Digital Earth, 7, 2004, https://doi.org/10.1080/17538947.2024.2391033